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The WordPress.com Dashboard Gets a Beautiful Makeover

Every day, you blog, you create, and you make things with your WordPress.com site. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, the code that runs WordPress.com gets updated dozens of times a day, as we deploy improvements. While you can’t see the vast majority of those changes, there is one improvement we can’t wait for you to see: a brand-new, redesigned WordPress.com dashboard featuring better contrast and the lovely Open Sans typeface.

Back in April, I shared our goals for the WordPress.com dashboard redesign:

It should have a simple, uncluttered design; free of excessive decoration and focused on your content.

It should use webfonts for modern, legible typography that’s consistent in every browser.

It should have a responsive design that’s tailored to desktop computers, tablets, and smartphones.

It should do all this while retaining the familiar, user-tested dashboard interface that millions of users already understand.